In the 2009-10 season we showed films in the following mini-season:

Alternate Views of WWII
American Political Documentary
Apocalypse and Beyond
Chinese Cinema
Extreme Cinema
French Films About Film
John Sayles
Lost Classics of Irish Cinema
Mafiosos of the World
Mario Bava
Native American Cinema
Pre Code Hollywood
Rediscovered Cinema of the GDR (Bonus season)
Sidney Lumet
Silent Comedy
Spaghetti westerns
Weimar Cinema

The films in each season were as follows:

Alternate Views of WWII

The Burmese Harp

Kon Ichikawa | Japan | 1956 | 116 minutes

Sharks and Little Fishes

Frank Wisbar | West Germany | 1957 | 120 minutes

Es gaschah am 20 Juli / Jackboot Mutiny

G W Pabst | West Germany | 1955 | 75 minutes

Fires on the Plain

Kon Ichikawa | Japan | 1959 | 108 minutes

Stalingrad / Dogs Do You Want to Live Forever

Frank Wisbar | West Germany | 1959 | 97 minutes

Wings

Larisa Shepitko | USSR | 1966 | 85 minutes

American Political Documentary

Primary

Robert Drew | USA | 1960 | 60 minutes

Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment

Robert Drew | USA | 1963 | 52 minutes

The Times of Harvey Milk

Rob Epstein | USA | 1984 | 90 minutes

The McCarthy Years

Various | USA | 1991 | 114 minutes

The Weather Underground

Sam Green / Bill Siegel | USA | 2002 | 92 minutes

Last Man Standing: Politics Texas Style

Paul Stekler | USA | 2004 | 0 minutes

One Bright Shining Moment

Stephen Vittoria | USA | 2005 | 123 minutes

Apocalypse and Beyond

The Earth Dies Screaming

Terence Fisher | UK | 1962 | 62 minutes

The Creation of the Humanoids

Wesley Barry | USA | 1962 | 75 minutes

2019: After the Fall of New York

Sergio Martino | Italy / France | 1983 | 96 minutes

Conquest

Lucio Fulci | Italy / Spain / Mexico | 1983 | 88 minutes

Night of the Comet

Thom Eberhart | USA | 1984 | 95 minutes

The Quiet Earth

Geoff Murphy | New Zealand | 1985 | 91 minutes

Last Night

Don McKellar | Canada / France | 1998 | 94 minutes

Chinese Cinema

Goddess

Yonggang Wu | China | 1934 | 85 minutes

Street Angel

Muzmi Yuan | China | 1937 | 87 minutes

Spring in a Small Town

Mu Fei | China | 1948 | 93 minutes

A Song at Midnight

Weibang Maxu | China | 1937 | 113 minutes

The Spring River Flows East

Chusheng Cai / Junli Zheng | China | 1947 | 190 minutes

An Orphan on the Street

Ming Zhao / Gong Yan | China | 1949 | 70 minutes

Extreme Cinema

Blood of the Beasts

Georges Franju | France | 1949 | 20 minutes

Carne

Gaspar Noe | France | 1991 | 40 minutes

Aftermath

Nacho Cerda | Spain | 1994 | 30 minutes

Nekromantik

Jorg Buttgereit | West Germany | 1987 | 75 minutes

In a Glass Cage

Agustin Villaronga | Spain | 1987 | 110 minutes

Fight for Your Life

Robert Endelson | USA | 1977 | 80 minutes

The House on the Edge of the Park

Ruggero Deodato | Italy | 1980 | 91 minutes

Farewell Uncle Tom

Gaultiero Jacopetti / Franco Prosperi | Italy | 1971 | 123 minutes

French Films About Film

Le Mepris / Contempt

Jean-Luc Godard | France / Italy | 1963 | 103 minutes

La Nuit Americaine / Day for Night

Francois Truffaut | France / Italy | 1973 | 115 minutes

The Eye of Vichy / L’Oeil de Vichy

Claude Chabrol | France | 1993 | 110 minutes

Irma Vep

Olivier Assayas | France | 1996 | 99 minutes

CQ

Roman Coppola | USA / France | 2001 | 98 minutes

Laissez-passer

Bertrand Tavernier | Spain / France / Germany | 2002 | 170 minutes

John Sayles

Honeydripper

John Sayles | USA | 2007 | 124 minutes

Casa de los babys

John Sayles | USA / Mexico | 2003 | 95 minutes

Lone Star

John Sayles | USA | 1996 | 135 minutes

The Secret of Roan Inish

John Sayles | USA / Ireland | 1994 | 103 minutes

Eight Men Out

John Sayles | USA | 1988 | 119 minutes

Baby its You

John Sayles | USA | 1983 | 105 minutes

Lost Classics of Irish Cinema

Irish Destiny

George Dewhurst | Ireland / UK | 1926 | 73 minutes

Mise Eire / My Ireland

George Morrison | Ireland | 1959 | 88 minutes

Saoirse? / Freedom?

George Morrison | Ireland | 1961 | 92 minutes

Rocky Road to Dublin

Peter Lennon | Ireland | 1968 | 69 minutes

Poitin

Bob Quinn | Ireland | 1979 | 65 minutes

Janey Mary

Paul Brady | Ireland | 2007 | 20 minutes

Kings

Tom Collins | Ireland / UK | 2007 | 88 minutes

Mafiosos of the World

Salvatore Giuliano

Francesco Rosi | Italy | 1962 | 123 minutes

Le Mani Sulla Citta

Francesco Rosi | Italy / France | 1963 | 105 minutes

Battles Without Honour and Humanity

Kinki Fukasaku | Japan | 1973 | 102 minutes

The Harder They Come

Perry Henzell | Jamaica | 1972 | 120 minutes

The Mark of Cain

Alix Lambert | USA / Russia | 2000 | 73 minutes

Election

Johnnie To | Hong Kong | 2005 | 100 minutes

Mario Bava

Hercules in the Haunted World

Mario Bava | Italy | 1961 | 91 minutes

The Whip and the Body

Mario Bava | Italy / France | 1963 | 91 minutes

Planet of the Vampires

Mario Bava | Italy / Spain | 1965 | 88 minutes

Five Dolls for an August Moon

Mario Bava | Italy | 1970 | 88 minutes

Four Times That Night

Mario Bava | Italy / West Germany | 1972 | 95 minutes

Rabid Dogs

Mario Bava | Italy | 1974 | 94 minutes

Native American Cinema

Imprint

Michael Linn | USA | 2007 | 84 minutes

Coyote Waits

Jan Egleson | USA | 2003 | 107 minutes

Dreamkeeper

Steve Barron | Canada / USA | 2003 | 174 minutes

The Business of Fancydancing

Sherman Alexei | USA | 2002 | 103 minutes

Dance me Outside

Bruce McDonald | Canada | 1995 | 84 minutes

Pow-wow Highway

Jonathan Wacks | USA | 1989 | 88 minutes

Pre Code Hollywood

Night Nurse

William Wellman | USA | 1931 | 72 minutes

Red-Headed Woman

Jack Conway | USA | 1932 | 79 minutes

Three on a Match

Mervyn LeRoy | USA | 1932 | 63 minutes

Wild Boys of the Road

William Wellman | USA | 1933 | 68 minutes

Female

Michael Curtiz | USA | 1933 | 60 minutes

Heroes for Sale

William Wellman | USA | 1933 | 71 minutes

Rediscovered Cinema of the GDR

Rotation

Wolfgang Staudte | East Germany | 1949 | 84 minutes

Kaiser’s Lackey

Wolfgang Staudte | East Germany | 1951 | 105 minutes

The Second Track

Joachim Kunert | East Germany | 1962 | 80 minutes

Carbide and Sorrel

Frank Beyer | East Germany | 1963 | 80 minutes

Hot Summer

Joachim Hasler | East Germany | 1968 | 91 minutes

The Legend of Paul and Paula

Heiner Carow | East Germany | 1973 | 106 minutes

Your Unknown Brother

Ulrich Weiss | East Germany | 1981 | 103 minutes

The Architects

Peter Kahane | East Germany | 1990 | 97 minutes

Sidney Lumet

Fail-Safe

Sidney Lumet | USA | 1964 | 112 minutes

The Pawnbroker

Sidney Lumet | USA | 1964 | 116 minutes

The Hill

Sidney Lumet | UK | 1965 | 123 minutes

The Offense

Sidney Lumet | UK / USA | 1972 | 112 minutes

Network

Sidney Lumet | USA | 1976 | 121 minutes

Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

Sidney Lumet | USA / UK | 2007 | 117 minutes

Silent Comedy

Wild and Woolly

John Emerson | USA | 1917 | 47 minutes

The Cook and Other Treasures

Various | USA | 1918 | 90 minutes

Laugh with Max Linder!

Various | France | 1920 | 90 minutes

The Stan Laurel Collection

Various | USA | 1925 | 90 minutes

The Charley Chase Collection, Vol. 1

Various | USA | 1926 | 90 minutes

Harry Langdon …The Forgotten Clown

Various | USA | 1926 | 90 minutes

Spaghetti westerns

Keoma

Enzo G. Castellari | Italy | 1976 | 105 minutes

Django Kill

Giulio Questi | Italy | 1967 | 117 minutes

The Price of Power

Tonino Valerii | Italy / Spain | 1968 | 96 minutes

The Mercenary

Sergio Corbucci | Italy / Spain | 1968 | 110 minutes

Face to Face

Sergio Sollima | Italy / Spain | 1967 | 108 minutes

Django the Bastard

Sergio Garrone | Italy | 1969 | 107 minutes

Weimar Cinema

The Holy Mountain

Arnold Fanck | Germany | 1926 | 106 minutes

Berlin Symphony of a Great City

Walter Ruttmann | Germany | 1927 | 79 minutes

Diary of a Lost Girl

Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Germany | 1929 | 115 minutes

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Phil Jutzi | Germany | 1931 | 90 minutes

The Threepenny Opera

Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Germany | 1931 | 112 minutes

Kuhle Wampe

Slatan Dudow | Germany | 1932 | 71 minutes